{"id":67547,"date":"2018-10-25T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silene.idilicstudio.com\/?p=67547"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:41:02","slug":"benin-law-recognizing-sacred-forests-and-their-custodian-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/documentation-centre\/legal-documents\/benin-law-recognizing-sacred-forests-and-their-custodian-communities","title":{"rendered":"Benin law recognizing sacred forests and their custodian communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, civil society and communities successfully lobbied the Benin Government to pass a national law (Interministerial Order No.0121) for the sustainable \u201cmanagement\u201d, legal recognition, and integration of sacred forests as protected areas. The law recognizes sacred forests and sites where gods, spirits and ancestors reside, and that communities protect and govern sacred forests, and have a responsibility for implementing the \u201cmanagement\u201d plan for the forest.\u00a0It has been translated into English (an unofficial version) from the original French, with support from the African Biodiversity Network.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-67547\" data-postid=\"67547\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-67547 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, civil society and communities successfully lobbied the Benin Government to pass a national law (Interministerial Order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[255,236,313],"class_list":["post-67547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-documents","tag-conservation","tag-indigenous-peoples","tag-sacred-sites","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81153,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67547\/revisions\/81153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}